On 25/07/2011, at 10:38 PM, Yves Lafon wrote:
> It MUST be ignored when present in responses with other response code than 206 Partial Content [3.1].
This might be a bit too strong; I prefer saying that it doesn't have any meaning on other messages by default, so that if someone wants to specify a new status code where it does make sense, they can do so without revising HTTP (not that this is terribly likely, I know).
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